#openness

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. ↗

— Jane Austen

#intimacy #marianne-dashwood #openness #opportunity #self-disclosure

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow. ↗

— Tony Schwartz

#certainty #curiosity #growing #learning #letting-go

Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#openness #love

If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#economic #greater #i #i believe #increasingly

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#go #i #into #me #motivates

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#openness #spirit

Allowing children to spew forth whatever is on their minds in the name of openness only creates an illusion of family closeness. ↗

— Neil Kurshan

#children #closeness #creates #family #forth

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity. ↗

— Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

#achievement #american #american life #crucible #democratic

We must honor our country's tradition of openness and continue to welcome new immigrants. ↗

— Jose Serrano

#country #honor #immigrants #must #new

The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#college #fosters #growing #growing up #had